Kappelberg tunnel
 Kappelberg tunnel
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B 14 with west portals of the Kappelberg tunnel on the Kappelberg
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| Official name | Kappelberg tunnel | |||
| use | Road tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Bundesstrasse 14 | |||
| place | Fellbach / Stuttgart | |||
| length | 1585 m | |||
| vehicles per day | 80,000 (approx.) | |||
| Number of tubes | 2 | |||
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| Client | Federal Republic of Germany | |||
| building-costs | 63 million DM | |||
| start of building | July 1986 | |||
| completion | December 1992 | |||
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| release | December 14, 1992 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| West portal | 48 ° 47 ′ 56 " N , 9 ° 16 ′ 3" E | |||
| East portal | 48 ° 48 ′ 10 ″ N , 9 ° 17 ′ 16 ″ E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Kappelberg tunnel in Rems-Murr in Baden-Württemberg is a 1,585 meter long twin-tube, erected in open construction road tunnel of this road section expressway nartig built bundesstraße 14 that the Neckartal with the Remstal east of Stuttgart connects and in this area Roads through Bad Cannstatt , Fellbach and Waiblingen relieved. Usually a speed limit of 100 km / h applies in the tunnel, but this can be changed using variable message signs , for example during construction work.
Geographical location
The Kappelberg tunnel is located between Fellbach in the northeast and Stuttgart in the southwest. It touches the southern urban area of Fellbach and leads gently arching through the northern flank of the Kappelberg , the northwesternmost branch of the Schurwald .
history
Construction started in July 1986 and the construction costs amounted to 63 million D-Marks (32 million euros). The section up to the Neckar Valley Viaduct Untertürkheim near the Neckar Stadium went into operation on December 14, 1992. The entire route to Bundesstraße 10 was opened on December 29, 1994. Since then, up to 80,000 vehicles have been driving on this section of the B 14 every day.
In the ADAC tunnel test in 2002, the Kappelberg tunnel was classified as "questionable"; the following year the fire protection requirements were tightened. The tunnel was therefore completely renovated from May 2004 to November 2005. During the work, the walls were lightened, new exhaust ventilation devices , lockable escape doors and new lights were installed, a height control system was installed and a new asphalt pavement was applied.
At the beginning of 2006 the ADAC tested the Kappelberg tunnel again, this time the result was “very good”. From August 21 to September 15, 2006, electronic permanent light signals were installed over each lane in the tunnel.
The Kappelberg tunnel is a hotspot for accidents , especially when entering the tunnel, rear-end collisions occur again and again. The reason could be that motorists "fear of tunnels" brake when entering the tunnel. Because of the heavy traffic in the tunnel, even small accidents usually result in long traffic jams. In order to defuse the situation, traffic observations will be made in the first half of June 2016.
photos
Blocked east portal in the direction of Stuttgart during the renovation work in 2005
Variable message signs in the Kappelberg tunnel
Individual evidence
- ↑ On Kappelberg it crashes more often than ever ( memento from 23 August 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Traffic observations in the area of the Kappelberg tunnel, press release RP Stuttgart, May 27, 2016